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Emeritus professor of mental health nursing at Cardiff University, studying mental health systems and services. I blog at https://benhannigan.com/

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Thank you for the invitation!

12.09.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super work, John.

16.08.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Week three of post-employment for me, as one of the 10,000+. From my new vantage point this analysis looks about right. Thanks for all your work on this, Glen.

15.08.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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We have an exciting new opportunity to join a new one year project on developing a CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) single session intervention for children and young people.

Check out the link below to find out more πŸ‘‡

10.06.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s frustratingly predictable that comments like this about degree-level nursing preparation would appear: we’re still the only professional group for which some people believe education is a bad thing.

07.02.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cardiff Nursing Undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education in Cardiff commenced in 1972, located within what was then the Welsh National School of Medicine. More than half a century later, the ambition which…

Following this up, here’s a piece I’ve written:

benhannigan.com/2025/02/03/c...

03.02.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wales deserves a strong capital university, one that trains its nurses; embraces the study of Religion and Theology and of Ancient History; teaches numerous languages, including music; one that does not reduce the Arts and Humanities to an irrelevance.

02.02.2025 12:08 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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That's okay, South Wales doesn't really need two absolutely massive universities! Its economy is so strong that it can cope as they shrink and retreat! Wealth flows through the streets like gold doesn't it! It hasn't tried to anchor its economy in new creative jobs has it! πŸ™„πŸ˜‘

01.02.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Petition: Enable Cardiff University to keep the Nursing degree course Cardiff University’s intention to cut the nursing degree programme is a huge loss to the future of nursing and the NHS. The loss in staff will have a significant impact on current students' studies. I...

Here’s a @senedd.wales petition on keeping a nursing programme at Cardiff: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

01.02.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Rhonda.

30.01.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the link, Steven. This wouldn’t be the first time a RG university has withdrawn from nursing. Will be watching…

30.01.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Emily.

30.01.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Beth.

30.01.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is, John. We’re also organising in response.

30.01.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I work with such talented and committed nursing academics in Cardiff University. Excellent teaching, outstanding research: all in a School with a history of doing this for more than half a century. All now at risk, with letters informing us of possible redundancy landing yesterday. Very poor.

30.01.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Huge congratulations to @clarebennett.bsky.social this evening!

21.11.2024 22:48 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Lovely to see you here, Alan 😊

15.11.2024 20:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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So, today I joined the COMPASS (Cardiff Mental Health Society and Services Research Group) meeting where Gavin John talked about his doctoral study into young people’s connections to family, friends and education during periods of inpatient care.

15.11.2024 16:46 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Autumn lunch in Heath Park, Cardiff. Very nice, after a morning of teaching.

15.11.2024 12:26 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It most certainly is!

14.11.2024 21:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds interesting for sure! We have a first paper from CAMH-Crisis2 under review: hope to be able to share more soon.

13.11.2024 20:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First attempt to re-create the mental health nursing academic community, please share and join go.bsky.app/B1Y3Jyh

13.11.2024 09:04 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi @markrubin.bsky.social Thanks+ for explaining how to make a Bluesky feed.

I've made one for mental health research using these tags #psychiatry #clinpsych #psychsci #mentalhealthsci #psychresearch #mentalhealthresearch

Hope it's useful! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Cheers, AndrΓ© (The Mental Elf)

13.11.2024 10:41 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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National Elf Service YouTube video by Mental Elf

"The poor doctors and nurses don't have time to read all of the important research" πŸ™

"Let's summarise the evidence in short and simple blogs, so everyone finds them easy to read and understand" giggled the elves as they blogged & *skeeted* πŸ€“

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M51...

13.11.2024 10:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, good to meet!

13.11.2024 17:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m detecting lots of additional activity on Bluesky in the last few days: lovely to be reconnecting with people here!

13.11.2024 17:18 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Post introduces a recent research paper. It focuses on patient safety problems in community-based mental health services

Post introduces a recent research paper. It focuses on patient safety problems in community-based mental health services

New here, so am sharing some recent work from my @thisinstitute.bsky.social PhD, in hope of finding more #patientsafety people here!

We wanted to understand what β€˜safe care’ looks like in community mental health services, as existing safety improvement research mostly relates to inpatient care

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11.11.2024 09:20 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

@nihr.bsky.social CAMH-Crisis2 whole-team meeting this morning. Lots to discuss: submission of first paper for peer review, progress on interviews, future dissemination plans.

02.10.2024 09:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Draft mental health and wellbeing strategy | GOV.WALES We are seeking your views on the draft Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Wales 2024 to 2034.

…it will be interesting to read more following the publication earlier this year of the draft mental health and wellbeing strategy: www.gov.wales/draft-mental...

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20.09.2024 09:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0